Brain abscess complicating cerebral infarct

Age and Ageing

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 477-480

  Beloosesky, Yichayaou ^a   Streifler, Jonathan Y ^a   Eynan, Nachman ^a   Grinblat, Joseph ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Brain abscess; Complication; Ischemic stroke

Indexed keywords

GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM;

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; BRAIN; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN ABSCESS; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PARESIS; PROTEUS INFECTIONS; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 0036865037     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/31.6.477     Document Type: Article

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